{"id":16239,"date":"2024-02-14T16:05:32","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T15:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tatachristiane.com\/univers\/?p=16239"},"modified":"2024-03-13T20:31:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T19:31:40","slug":"what-makes-berlin-a-fashion-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tatachristiane.com\/univers\/news\/what-makes-berlin-a-fashion-city\/","title":{"rendered":"What makes Berlin a fashion city?"},"content":{"rendered":"

What makes Berlin a fashion city?<\/h3>\n

by Emma P\u00e9durand<\/p>\n

Berlin has been welcoming a fashion week twice a year since 2007. The Berlin Fashion week promotes the capital as one \u00ab that serves as a dynamic muse and a catalyst for pushing the boundaries of fashion, embracing inclusivity, sustainability, and a bold, avant- garde ethos \u00bb<\/a> . How is that so?<\/p>\n

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\u00a0A one-of-a-kind cultural capital<\/h3>\n

West-Berlin was designated a European Capital of culture in 1988, one year before Paris. As a cultural capital, Berlin stands out for the dynamism of its creative scenes. Contrary to other well-established European cultural cities like Paris or Florence, Berlin doesn\u2019t owe its reputation to its monuments and institutions, but rather to its cosmopolite appeal and informal urban spaces for creation. Since the early 20th century, and even more so since the Fall of the Wall, Berlin can be regarded as a \u00ab heterotopic \u00bb city blurring the boundaries between the real and the imaginary, where utopias can unfold and thrive. In the 1920s, the English writer Stephen Spender wrote that Berlin \u2018seemed a paradise where there was no censorship and young Germans enjoyed extraordinary freedom in their lives\u2019 (Page, 1998, p. 39 \u2014 quoted by Andrew Thacker, \u201c\u2018Hellhole and Paradise\u2019 : The heterotopic spaces of Berlin\u201d). Berlin was already a very inspiring city with few constraints for artists. Sexuality was less normative than anywhere else in Europe \u2014 Stefan Zweig named the city \u2018Babylon of the world\u2019 due to its sexual openness. During the Cold War, West-Berlin was the first city to have such a broad gay scene and community. This sheds light on why fetishist fashion as a symbol for freedom remains so bound to the cultural identity of Berlin.<\/p>\n

Berlin has remained a place where utopias can unfold and thrive.<\/p>\n

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The city for avant-garde artistry and techno-fashion<\/h3>\n

The vibrant heart of artistic West-Berlin, Kreuzberg, still surprises by the variety of its urban landscapes and graffitis. If the very idea of fashion is intrinsically linked to modernity, the Berlin fashion represents the lucid affirmation of confusion in a world where systems no longer rule individual life choices and appearances. In that sense, fashion in Berlin is so diverse that it can barely be called fashion. Just like techno parties invite a set of individuals to attempt to reach a spiritual bond and the overrun of individualism, we could call \u00ab techno-fashion \u00bb the grouping of diverse visions of fashion coexisting in harmony and appealing to every taste (good or bad) while hoping for the implementation of a transcendent, genuinely communal fashion. That intent to unite the irreconcilable recalls the experience of the Deutscher Werkbund, a society of artists and architects created in 1907 that claimed that the industry should work hand in hand with the arts to bring technology to aesthetics, in the wake of the Arts and Crafts Movement.<\/p>\n